Today in Supreme Court History: December 21, 1922

12/21/1922: Justice Pierce Butler takes oath.

Justice Pierce Butler

 

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[JoeFromtheBronx]

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. 299 U.S. 304 (1936) was decided OTD.

The opinion has broad statement involving the United States power over international affairs and the executive power:

Not only, as we have shown, is the federal power over external affairs in origin and essential character different from that over internal affairs, but participation in the exercise of the power is significantly limited. In this vast external realm, with its important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation.

That sort of thing can be taken too far.